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Feeding the world's growing population is a problem that can't wait for an answer. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, agricultural production will need to increase 70 percent by 2050 to keep up with demand. Global agricultural production is projected to grow by 1.5 percent annually over the next decade. At that rate, it would take 47 years to increase production by 70 percent. The problem is that we only have 36 years before we hit 9.5 billion people. Agricultural giants Monsanto and DuPont, as well as the U.S. and United Kingdom governments, are pumping billions of dollars into agricultural technology to increase yields and production....

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